Criminal Litigation Experience

As a federal prosecutor or defense attorney, Mr. Peters has prior experience in criminal cases involving securities and commodities fraud; mail/wire fraud, and related honest services violations; mortgage fraud, HUD fraud and related RESPA violations; healthcare fraud and related violations; bankruptcy fraud, racketeering, and public corruption; federal tax evasion and false statements; antitrust; theft of intellectual property; government contracting, and narcotics and dangerous drugs. Most of these cases have involved multiple defendants and related claims involving conspiracy, money laundering, or forfeiture of assets or personal property. Noteworthy examples include:

• Defending former officer of large public communications company to acquittal on felony charges of securities fraud and conspiracy. Related charges involving the federal honest services statute were dismissed on defense motion as unconstitutionally vague and overbroad;

• Co-counsel for former executive officer of larger public communications company in reaching probationary disposition of federal prosecution in connection with “friends and family” shares in vendor initial public offerings worth tens of millions of dollars;

• Defending over twenty federal grand jury investigations to successful no charge or “declination” decisions for corporations or individuals identified in writing by the U.S. Justice Department as targets of those investigations;

• Prosecuting nine defendants to felony convictions in federal case involving bankruptcy and pension fraud by large Denver furniture retailer, and multiple jury trials;

• Prosecuting former Editor of the Conservative Digest magazine for racketeering and money laundering in relation to fraud in the off exchange sale of precious metals, with proceeds diverted to Iran Contras.